Re: Straight to engineer
| October 21, 2010 03:58AM |
SMITTY Wrote:
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> That might be the case, but I have taken trains on
> tracks I have never seen before in the dark of
> night, no pilot, and I don't mean a 5 car train I
> am talking 120 car 10,000 tons just by using the
> time table to let me know where I was at. I
> suppose I could have refused to go without a pilot
> but why???
That's what restricted speed is for.
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> That might be the case, but I have taken trains on
> tracks I have never seen before in the dark of
> night, no pilot, and I don't mean a 5 car train I
> am talking 120 car 10,000 tons just by using the
> time table to let me know where I was at. I
> suppose I could have refused to go without a pilot
> but why???
That's what restricted speed is for.
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